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Fall Front Porch With Fairytale Pumpkins

In: DECORATING, Decorating Tips & Tricks, Fall Decorating Ideas & Projects

Ooooh, I love decorating my front porch for Fall! It’s one of my favorite things to do, There’s something about the pumpkins and the colors that just make me so happy!! Let me show you how I decorated my porch with lots of fairytale pumpkins this year! (updated 8.24.22)

How To Decorate A Front Porch For Fall

ITEMS TO DECORATE MY PORCH:

  • Various Sized Pumpkins
  • Lanterns
  • Large Wall Sign
  • Fall Flower Planters
  • Autumn Wreath
  • Fresh Greenery & Berries
  • New Doormat
fall front porch pin

Starting with an empty porch

I started with a clean slate and gave the porch a good cleaning…adios spiders and stink bugs (sidenote: do you have a stink bug invasion in the Fall where you live? They are nasty-looking things!!)

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Hang a seasonal sign

I hung up a sign that I made a while back. You can make one too! Pop over to Ella Claire & Co. and she has the complete tutorial that I followed and even the free template!! (Love free!!) You can find her tutorial here

My sign is hung up using vinyl siding clips; they slide underneath the siding so there’s no damage. For smaller signs, I use this size vinyl siding hook

fall porch with pumpkins and signage

Adding Fall planters

My planters are from Costco (under $20 and amazingly beautiful, so stop reading and get over there!!) They even had the copper-painted branches in them already.

Costco really filled their planters with such a cool variety of plants too!

fall planter with ornamental cabbage
Costco Fall Planter

Add Vintage touches to the porch

I love to add vintage or thrifted finds to my seasonal porch decor.

I’ve had the antique wood farm crate for eons and have used it for countless displays. See here for a different Fall display. It made the perfect little home for a stack of pretty pumpkins.

Secret between you and me…the top pumpkin is a fraud, a phony, a foam!! None of my real pumpkins could fit and the fake one fits in so tightly that I don’t have to worry about the tower toppling over!

fairytale pumpkin stack
Pumpkins stacked in a vintage farm crate

festive door mat

My go-to store for all my mats is the Christmas Tree Shops. Their mats are $6.99 and they always have great ones for every season.

I stalked the store until they started putting out their Fall merch in August and grabbed all my mats for the season…you should have seen me moving stacks of these heavy coir mats to find my “H”!! I worked up a sweat, but hey I finally found it!!

fall door mat
Christmas Tree Shops doormat

Fall front door wreath

I’ve had this wreath for a few years. It’s from the Valerie Parr Hill line at QVC…I have so many wreaths from her and every single one is high quality and beautiful. I love to make wreaths but sometimes it’s nice to be able to pull one right out of the box!!

I added the buffalo-checked ribbon to it.

Autumn Wreath with buffalo check bow

decorating the stairs

I bought 2 of these rustic-looking lanterns from Walmart. They are from the Better Homes and Gardens line and are so tall and gorgeous!

The flameless outdoor candles I got are a tad too big but look really pretty at night…I should have bought the 8 in candles instead.

lanterns and pumpkins

I placed the lanterns on different stairs on each side- on the top landing on the left and on the first stair on the opposite side.

Then I added my fairytale pumpkins and a couple of small orange ones.

I just love all the cool-looking fairytale or Cinderella pumpkins that are readily available now. I grabbed all of mine from Trader Joe’s for $7.99/ea.

fairytale pumpkins and lantern

I had a bag of jack be littles but I didn’t like how they looked next to the fairytale pumpkins so I gave them a little chalk paint makeover…I wonder what my neighbors think while I’m sitting on the stairs painting pumpkins!!

But hey, I like them so much better now!!

painting a pumpkin with green chalk paint

Remember back in the day when there was exactly one kind of pumpkin to put on your porch…orange and round!!! Things have really changed!!!

fairytale pumpkins on staircase

My stairs widen as they go down so there’s plenty of space for pumpkins without getting in the way when we actually use them.

pumpkins on staircase

Final Fall Touches

I went into my backyard and cut some berry vines and berry springs, I intertwined the vines with a small garland above my sign; and tucked them in a few springs down the stairs.

closeup of Fall sign

Around the door, I put a grapevine garland and tied small pieces of buffalo check ribbon around it.

Here she is in all her Fall glory!! Notice my open window…it was like 77 out!!

front door with fall wreath
It definitely feels like Fall around here now!!
view of entire front porch decorated for Fall

My neighbor swung by in his tractor and dropped me off a load of his cornstalks! Now it really looks like Fall out here!!

fall porch with cornstalks

more fall porch inspo

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closeup of fall flower container

For more Fall porch inspiration you can check out another way I decorated this porch for Fall. This time I used lots of smaller pumpkins and gourds.

fall front porch decorated with pumpkins
More Fall Ideas For You…

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Fall Decorating with Pumpkins on the Porch

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By: Jennifer Howard · In: DECORATING, Decorating Tips & Tricks, Fall Decorating Ideas & Projects · Tagged: fall porch, fall wreath, pumpkins, wreaths

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Comments

  1. Leslie Watkins says

    September 13, 2022 at 8:23 pm

    Love that sign…. And what??? Who knew their were vinyl siding hangers?!! Off to get those. Loved the faux pumpkin that fit on that tower. Great job!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      September 14, 2022 at 7:52 am

      I know Leslie…they are the best! There are large & small sizes and both work great!!

      Reply
  2. stacy says

    September 6, 2022 at 9:57 am

    Love the fairytale pumpkins, I hope I have some in the garden this year to decorate with!

    Reply
  3. Rachel Harper says

    September 5, 2022 at 10:57 am

    Jennifer,
    I loved the step by step process of creating your gorgeous fairytail porch.

    Reply
  4. Jan says

    August 29, 2022 at 7:43 pm

    Your Fall porch looks great! Love all the colors and elements. I was also wanting to know the color of your front door. Do you happen to know? I like it.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      August 30, 2022 at 9:41 am

      Hi Jan! My door is Sherwin Williams “Sea Salt” it’s the perfect coastal blue shade.

      Reply
  5. Jen says

    August 29, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    Oh…I love it, Jennifer! I’m so excited to decorate my porch for fall. I just wish mother nature would get the memo! It’s still so dang hot here. My pumpkins and mums would be toast after one day. ☹ Hopefully soon! Thanks for the gorgeous inspiration, friend!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      August 29, 2022 at 6:49 pm

      Oh, this isn’t this year! Although my neighbor texted me to see if he could drop off corn stalks soon…I love seeing his tractor crossing the road!!

      Reply
  6. Lori Nell says

    October 6, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    Jennifer, I absolutely love how you’ve decorated your front porch for fall. The colors are just amazing. I love the roof shape to your porch! Just beautiful.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 7, 2020 at 1:19 pm

      Thanks so much Lori!! I love Fall colors! My porch matches all the trees around my house right now…the colors are amazing this Fall in NH.

      Reply
  7. Kim Waldorf says

    October 6, 2020 at 3:19 pm

    Great job on your porch! I love the pumpkin/hayride sign. So cute!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 7, 2020 at 1:19 pm

      Thanks Kim!! The sign was a DIY!!

      Reply
  8. Joan Brosnan says

    October 6, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    Thank you for sharing your beautiful porch. I think its very rewarding to decorate for the seasons!
    Sincerely
    Joan

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 7, 2020 at 1:20 pm

      I agree Joan! It’s one of my favorite things to do…but I’m already thinking about my Christmas porch!!!

      Reply
  9. Carol Karl says

    October 6, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    All so pretty. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 7, 2020 at 1:20 pm

      Thanks so much Carol!!

      Reply
  10. Linda says

    October 4, 2020 at 8:39 am

    So beautiful! I’m sure my neighbors think I’m crazy with all the painting of things I do.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 7, 2020 at 1:22 pm

      LOL!!!I’m glad I’m not the only one!!

      Reply
  11. Danielle says

    October 2, 2020 at 10:24 am

    Your blog is beautiful! I love everything you used for your front porch! It’s so cute!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 2, 2020 at 5:46 pm

      Thanks so much, Danielle!!!

      Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 7, 2020 at 1:23 pm

      Danielle- thank you so much!!!

      Reply
  12. Paula@SweetPea says

    October 2, 2020 at 8:15 am

    Your fall porch looks gorgeous! I would never have known that the top pumpkin on your trio was faux if you hadn’t told us.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 2, 2020 at 5:46 pm

      It did make that gross styrofoam noise when I shoved it in there though!!

      Reply
  13. Juliet says

    September 30, 2020 at 11:02 am

    Jennifer – I love your fall porch! So many thoughtful touches and it looks beautiful! My niece and I are headed to a wonderful nursery today for pumpkins. You’ve given me a lot of inspiration on how to incorporate them into my porch and entry. It’s in the 90’s today, but I can’t wait forever, right?! xo

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 1, 2020 at 5:24 am

      Thanks,Juliet! It’s been super warm in NH too; it was 80° when I was decorating my porch and I had the ACs on yesterday! Have fun decorating!

      Reply
  14. Linda says

    September 29, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    Such a cozy pretty area!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      October 12, 2020 at 4:22 am

      Thanks Linda!

      Reply

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